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Adria Airways will terminate flights from Lodz this summer after three years of operations. The Slovenian carrier will suspend its sole remaining route out of the Polish city to Munich on June 30. Ticket sales for the ten weekly service, codeshared by Lufthansa, have been terminated thereafter. The Slovenian carrier has a Bombardier CRJ 700 aircraft, nicknamed Lodz, stationed in the city, as well as local Polish crew. The airline has been steadily reducing its operations from Lodz over the past year, initially suspending flights to Paris, followed by Amsterdam. In a statement posted on its official Facebook page, Lodz Airport said, "The Board at Lodz Airport has decided to end its cooperation with Adria after failing to conclude a new agreement. Despite negotiations, we failed to reach a deal that is acceptable to both sides".

The development marks an end to Adria's Polish adventure which began three years ago and saw the carrier maintain services out of Olsztyn and Rzeszow as well, which were both discontinued after several months of operations last year. The growth in Poland was part of a revised outlook by the airline's former management to place less of an emphasis on the company's limited home market and to develop into a pan-European, rather than a Slovenian, air carrier. Adria's new owners said last year they would continue developing operations out of Poland. The airline will keep flying between Ljubljana and Warsaw where it competes directly against LOT Polish Airlines.

Lodz is centrally located in Poland and is the country’s third largest city. However, it is just 135 kilometres south-west of Warsaw and the opening of a new motorway linking the two cities in 2012 has reduced travel time to approximately one hour, making it much harder to generate and sustain air services from Lodz. From June 30, Ryanair will become the only airline to maintain services from the city, serving Dublin, East Midlands and London Stansted. It had previously operated flights to an additional eight cities, but, like many, has scaled back activities in recent years. SAS Scandinavian Airlines closed its route to Copenhagen and Wizz Air has suspended operations from Lodz, after cancelling its links to Dortmund, London Luton and Stockholm Skavsta. Adria is yet to comment on the closing of its Lodz base, the faith of its local staff or where it plans to deploy the CRJ 700 past June 30.

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Why would they focus on LJU? It's an extremely small market, even the LOCOs are avoiding it to some extent (on one hand, LJU is not desperate enough to lower it's handling fees, on the other there is no real prospect of having some 200 pax on every flight). The new management already said, they will be focusing more on ACMI (wet lease)-

Problem with LJU is not a small market, but competition from numerous nearby airports, mainly ZAG,TRS,GRZ,VCE,TSF, to some extent also VIE,MUC,BGY,MXP,BUD and even BLQ,KLU,PUY,RJK,SZG,BEG. These are all airports Slovenians travel to by car.

It's not an exact comparison since it's an island, but Malta has a population of 0.4 million compared to 2 million in Slovenia. The airport has over 60 destinations direct, all with A319 and larger. I myself, based in Ljubljana, use Venice for around half my flights due to lack of connectivity from LJU. In short the Slovene market could easily support more flights given reasonable (not cheap) flights and good destinations.

No, I dont't mean the airline operating a PSO routes. I mean the routing. A PSO route must be a national flight, it departs and ends within the same country. It is subsidized by the authorities/ministry of a certain country, never by a bunch of countries or the EU.

JU already operates 4 different aircraft families, adding a fifth one doesn't make any sense for an airline that small. Unless of course they retire the 737s and maybe the ATRs too.And instead get 70 and 90-100 seat regional jets either CRJs or Embraers.

Plane Mad I agree.They need to retire both the Boeing and ATR fleets and get a regional jet family in their place.Keep only as many A320 family planes as they can actually use and try to connect BEG with as may cities as it is financially possible.Also (although it is extremely important politically) they should give up with the longhaul experiment and save a great amount of money.Offer instead government and airport incentives for foreign longhaul carriers to fly to BEG.

I am glad they are done with Poland. It never made much sense. It would be better if they focused on developing Pritisna as a secondary hub before it gets too much competition and Wizz eventually opens a base.

+1INI is going to have way more than 300.000 pax for 2017. It had almost 100.000 during the slowest period of the year, I expect large increases during the Summer and Autumn periods with the new services announced.Expanding the terminal needs to become priority number one for the government.

The problem with INI was that for years they tried to attract legacy carriers and to mirror what BEG has been doing.Once they had a reality check and when they lowered their fees and invited ULCCs, results started to show.

The government won't do anything about it. This expansion at Nish is filling their coffers which are usually empty. Not to mention that the whole region is seeing a lot of tourism as a result of these flights.

Positive impacts on the whole region are way too positive for them to do anything.

As for BEG, let them lower their fees so as to remain competitive. Also, they are getting a second A320 by Wizz Air. They are far from being a victim here.

I've always been skeptical of flights out of Nis, judging how the legacy carriers have performed. Now with the influx of LCC flights, and their relative success, I think its opened a new market where people previously using busses now fly, as well as expanding on tourism in the region.

BEG and JU would probably lose a small amount of pax from Nis, however statistics are showing that both are showing an increase in pax numbers. Lets not forget, BEG isn't just JU.

then you should follow this post more often then, I believe its almost every second day that its oracled how INI is gonna surpass not only Pula but Pristina and Skopje.. Im still waiting for the estimate how INI will become a hub in the Balkans

i) After the A2 motorway between Łódź and Warsaw opened in 2012, which reduced the travel time between the two cities to about one hour, the Łódź airport has faced tougher competition from the two Warsaw airports (Warsaw Chopin and Warsaw-Modlin) - source Wikipedia2) FR already flies to the gasterbeiter destinations

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